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Basic Information

Ecumenopolis is a "city made of the whole world". The term was coined in 1967 to discuss the notion that urban areas may spread like ribbons around the globe, following the major highways, and eventually blend into one another. There are already parts of the world where this is occurring. Cities swallow up and incorporate their suburbs, then new suburbs spring up on the busiest roads leading out of town.

Game and Story Use

An ecumenopolis probably covers only the land. That still leaves the oceans to be farmed. Also, every building or arcology might have a roof garden (or an entire farm, for the larger ones)… and, depending on the technological level, there might be orbital farms made from asteroids.